Alpha-thalassemia mental retardation syndrome

Alpha-thalassemia mental retardation syndrome

Child of 8 yrs with the characteristic facial features of ATR-X syndrome. Note the upswept frontal hair line, hypertelorism, epicanthic folds, flat nasal bridge, small triangular upturned nose, tented upper lip, everted lower lip and hypotonic facies.
Classification and external resources
OMIM	301040

Alpha-thalassemia mental retardation syndrome (ATRX), also called alpha-thalassemia X-linked mental retardation, nondeletion type or ATR-X syndrome,^[1] is a condition caused by a mutated gene. Females with this mutated gene have no specific signs or features, but may demonstrate skewed X chromosome inactivation. Hemizygous males tend to be moderately intellectually disabled and have physical characteristics including coarse facial features, microcephaly (small head size), hypertelorism (widely spaced eyes), a depressed nasal bridge, a tented upper lip, and an everted lower lip.^[2] Mild or moderate anemia, associated with alpha-thalassemia, is part of the condition.^[3]

It is associated with ATRX.^[4]

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References

↑ Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) 301040
↑ Robert J. Gorlin; Meyer Michael Cohen; Raoul C. M. Hennekam (2001). Syndromes of the Head and Neck. Oxford University Press. p. 986. ISBN 0-19-511861-8.
↑ Stevenson, Roger E. (1993-01-01). Pagon, Roberta A.; Adam, Margaret P.; Ardinger, Holly H.; Wallace, Stephanie E.; Amemiya, Anne; Bean, Lora JH; Bird, Thomas D.; Dolan, Cynthia R.; Fong, Chin-To, eds. Alpha-Thalassemia X-Linked Intellectual Disability Syndrome. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle. PMID 20301622.
↑ Medina CF, Mazerolle C, Wang Y, et al. (March 2009). "Altered visual function and interneuron survival in Atrx knockout mice: inference for the human syndrome". Hum. Mol. Genet. 18 (5): 966–77. PMID 19088125. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddn424.

Sex linkage: X-linked disorders

X-linked recessive
Immune	Chronic granulomatous disease (CYBB) Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency X-linked agammaglobulinemia Hyper-IgM syndrome type 1 IPEX X-linked lymphoproliferative disease Properdin deficiency
Hematologic	Haemophilia A Haemophilia B X-linked sideroblastic anemia
Endocrine	Androgen insensitivity syndrome/Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy KAL1 Kallmann syndrome X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita
Metabolic	Amino acid: Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency Oculocerebrorenal syndrome Dyslipidemia: Adrenoleukodystrophy Carbohydrate metabolism: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency Danon disease/glycogen storage disease Type IIb Lipid storage disorder: Fabry's disease Mucopolysaccharidosis: Hunter syndrome Purine–pyrimidine metabolism: Lesch–Nyhan syndrome Mineral: Menkes disease/Occipital horn syndrome
Nervous system	X-linked mental retardation: Coffin–Lowry syndrome MASA syndrome Alpha-thalassemia mental retardation syndrome Siderius X-linked mental retardation syndrome Eye disorders: Color blindness (red and green, but not blue) Ocular albinism (1) Norrie disease Choroideremia Other: Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMTX2-3) Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease SMAX2
Skin and related tissue	Dyskeratosis congenita Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (EDA) X-linked ichthyosis X-linked endothelial corneal dystrophy
Neuromuscular	Becker's muscular dystrophy/Duchenne Centronuclear myopathy (MTM1) Conradi–Hünermann syndrome Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy 1
Urologic	Alport syndrome Dent's disease X-linked nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
Bone/tooth	AMELX Amelogenesis imperfecta
No primary system	Barth syndrome McLeod syndrome Smith–Fineman–Myers syndrome Simpson–Golabi–Behmel syndrome Mohr–Tranebjærg syndrome Nasodigitoacoustic syndrome

X-linked dominant
X-linked hypophosphatemia Focal dermal hypoplasia Fragile X syndrome Aicardi syndrome Incontinentia pigmenti Rett syndrome CHILD syndrome Lujan–Fryns syndrome Orofaciodigital syndrome 1 Craniofrontonasal dysplasia

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